The couple, David and Kathy Oaks, faced 38 charges between them of child rape and sexual abuse, according to police. The charges stemmed from activity that police said happened between 2000 and 2008, our news partners at the Brockton Enterprise reported.

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David Oaks was sentenced Monday to 15 to 20 years in state prison. Upon release, he will be placed on probation for 10 years and be required to wear a GPS monitoring device.

He must also register as a sex offender, undergo sex offender treatment and stay away from children under the age of 16.

Kathy Oaks was sentenced to 13 to 15 years in state prison, with five years probation and GPS monitoring. She must also register as a sex offender and stay away from children under 16.

One victim in the case, now an adult, told police the abuse started when he was 7 and continued until he was 14.

He said he never reported it because David Oaks, now 41, told him at the time that nobody would believe a 7-year-old, and that if he told, he would be "taken away and locked up in a bad place for life," police stated in a report.

Kathy Oaks, now 36, is accused of performing sexual acts on the victim and forcing him to have sex with her to get her pregnant, police said.

The abuse subsided in March 2008, police said, after Kathy Oaks became pregnant, but lost the baby after the victim punched her in the stomach, records state.